A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (the affected version unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown part. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. As an impact it is known to affect availability. The summary by CVE is:

An incomplete fix was shipped for the Rapid Reset (CVE-2023-44487/CVE-2023-39325) vulnerability for an OpenShift Containers.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2023-6596 since 12/07/2023. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/25/2024). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1499 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The entries VDB-196355, VDB-207755, VDB-207757 and VDB-239817 are pretty similar.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Red Hat

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• OpenShift Container Platform

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• open-source

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